mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone
Currently a zone's present_pages is calcuated as below, which is
inaccurate and may cause trouble to memory hotplug.
spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve.
During fixing bugs caused by inaccurate zone->present_pages, we found
zone->present_pages has been abused. The field zone->present_pages may
have different meanings in different contexts:
1) pages existing in a zone.
2) pages managed by the buddy system.
For more discussions about the issue, please refer to:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/5/866
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1346751/
This patchset tries to introduce a new field named "managed_pages" to
struct zone, which counts "pages managed by the buddy system". And revert
zone->present_pages to count "physical pages existing in a zone", which
also keep in consistence with pgdat->node_present_pages.
We will set an initial value for zone->managed_pages in function
free_area_init_core() and will adjust it later if the initial value is
inaccurate.
For DMA/normal zones, the initial value is set to:
(spanned_pages - absent_pages - memmap_pages - dma_reserve)
Later zone->managed_pages will be adjusted to the accurate value when the
bootmem allocator frees all free pages to the buddy system in function
free_all_bootmem_node() and free_all_bootmem().
The bootmem allocator doesn't touch highmem pages, so highmem zones'
managed_pages is set to the accurate value "spanned_pages - absent_pages"
in function free_area_init_core() and won't be updated anymore.
This patch also adds a new field "managed_pages" to /proc/zoneinfo
and sysrq showmem.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: small comment tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index bd82f6b..b8294fc 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -137,6 +137,22 @@
return count;
}
+static void reset_node_lowmem_managed_pages(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+{
+ struct zone *z;
+
+ /*
+ * In free_area_init_core(), highmem zone's managed_pages is set to
+ * present_pages, and bootmem allocator doesn't allocate from highmem
+ * zones. So there's no need to recalculate managed_pages because all
+ * highmem pages will be managed by the buddy system. Here highmem
+ * zone also includes highmem movable zone.
+ */
+ for (z = pgdat->node_zones; z < pgdat->node_zones + MAX_NR_ZONES; z++)
+ if (!is_highmem(z))
+ z->managed_pages = 0;
+}
+
/**
* free_all_bootmem_node - release a node's free pages to the buddy allocator
* @pgdat: node to be released
@@ -146,6 +162,7 @@
unsigned long __init free_all_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat)
{
register_page_bootmem_info_node(pgdat);
+ reset_node_lowmem_managed_pages(pgdat);
/* free_low_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES) will be called later */
return 0;
@@ -158,6 +175,11 @@
*/
unsigned long __init free_all_bootmem(void)
{
+ struct pglist_data *pgdat;
+
+ for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat)
+ reset_node_lowmem_managed_pages(pgdat);
+
/*
* We need to use MAX_NUMNODES instead of NODE_DATA(0)->node_id
* because in some case like Node0 doesn't have RAM installed
